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Prod & Tech Strategist helping SaaS Startups define and build product & scale their business - CTO @skipio - Fmr CTO @surveylocal

Salt Lake City, UT
Joined July 2008
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Hot take: every tech company in the world is overstaffed.
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Come join us on the StimulusReflex Discord server if you’re ready to level up your Rails game. It’s a great community where we help each other learn and solve problems together. discord.gg/stimulus-reflex
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A B2B Product Management Story: on discovering problems that customers actually care about Very visual story thread👇🏾
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I am meta considering the vanity of our endeavours, and the lack of authenticity of our pursuits. There ;-)
We need to redefine "hard work" to include "hard thinking." The person who outsmarts you is out working you. The person who finds shortcuts is out working you. The person with a better strategy is out working you. Usually, the hardest work is thinking of a better way to do it.
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4 of 5 stars to Startup Playbook by Sam Altman goodreads.com/review/show/42…
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“More engineers” will usually *not* solve your problems. Because the real problem is often a strategy problem, culture problem, interpersonal problem, trust problem, creativity problem, or market problem. More engineers *will* solve your “I don’t have enough engineers” problem.
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The arc of SaaS is long, but it tends towards good products
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Your salary is just your company’s monthly subscription of you
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Over-funded first time entrepreneur prematurely scaling an unproven venture 😂
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LIFE HACK: Find people, books and ideas that contradict your current beliefs.
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Well, that makes more sense than most competition slides. 😜
Replying to @kevinleeme
4/ Oatly Chief Creative Officer, John Schoolcraft, claims that they only keep one strategic document internally. Seems unlikely, but it's a good story that embodies Oatly's rebellious spirit.
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When I see a startup using head count as a growth metric
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"We so want the code to be the source of truth but runtime is the truth." @kyfast
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If you start a startup that can only reach users by doing deals with big companies, the default outcome will be that you run out of money and die while waiting for them to make up their minds.
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You need openness and creativity pre-product-market-fit. But after that you have to trade that openness in for repeatability, scalability, and management. Failing to do this kills startups after product market fit.
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0/ There is a dazzling amount of inconsistency in what GTM metrics are presented at board meetings of early stage b2b companies. Here is my hit list of the most important, and why:
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What is the "APM" tool for no-code development? How does one debug and/or monitor no-code apps? This is already a problem for citizen developers using Zapier, IFTTT, etc.
In a no code era, everyone at a startup can “commit code” which creates a new set of operational challenges & best practices. * Code reviews no longer required * Product changes hard to track * AB testing often overlooked No code tools are empowering, but hard to scale in 2020.
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Most startups are doing too many things. They don’t make tough prioritization decisions until they start to run out of cash. A good thought experiment is to ask, what would you do in that situation? Don’t wait. You should be all-in on your best idea now.
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